Lake-Bindegolly-Nationalpark
The Lake Bindegolly National Park (English: Lake Bindegolly National Park ) is a national park in the southwest of the Australian state of Queensland.
The park is located in the ecoregion Mulga Lands and was established for maintaining a population of the rare Acacia ammophila.
Location
It is located 871 kilometers west of Brisbane and 40 kilometers east of Thargomindah in the outback at the Bulloo Developmental Road.
In the vicinity of the National Parks and Currawinya Binya lie.
Provincial nature
The park contains three lakes, Lake Bindegolly, Toomaroo Lake and Lake Hutchinson. Two of them are salt lakes, one is a freshwater lake. Surrounded by lakes, these are the most important wetland area in southwest Queensland, salt marshes and Lehmpfannen. Along the eastern shore of Lake Bindegolly run sand dunes, while on the west bank extend stony plains, which farther to the west at a low mountain range, Mount Bindegolly build.
Flora and Fauna
The Acacia ammophila grows mainly along the sand dunes. The stony plains and the mountains on the west side of the park is covered with Mulga. There are also clear eucalyptus forest and scrubland.
A 318 -square-mile area of the lake and its surroundings was by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA ) classified because there live more than one percent of the world population of the Australian rowing ducks and Rotkopfsäbelschnäbler ( recurvirostra novaehollandiae ). The park following bird species, providing a habitat: Inland Pluvialis (Charadrius australis), Bourkesittich, Slaty -backed Thornbill ( Acanthiza robustirostris ), gray crown honey eater ( Lichenostomus keartlandi ), Black Honeyeater ( Sugomel nigrum), Elster honeyeater ( Certhionyx variegatus ), Hall's Babbler ( Pomatostomus halli ) Chirruping Wedgebill ( Psophodes cristatus) and Chestnut -breasted Quail - Trush ( Cinclosoma castaneothorax ).
Facilities and access
Both tents as well as the vehicular access to the national parks with vehicles and the lakes with boats are prohibited. There is a nine-kilometer trail along Lake Bindegolly and through the sand dunes on the eastern shore.
The national park is located directly north subsequently to the Bulloo Developmental Road, 40 kilometers east of Thargomindah and 150 kilometers west of Cunnamulla. Vehicles must be parked on the roadside; The park can only be entered on foot.